gut punch from the grave,' " Toronto Star, 21 November 2019.Andrew Armitage, "Another Memory Courtesy of Keith Maillard," Sun Times, Owen Sound, January 4, 2020. CBC Arts columnist and creative nonfiction author/editor Alicia Elliott writes that Maillard's memoir "gives us a model of not only self awareness and honesty but also, more importantly, healing." Appalachian Review praises Fatherless as “a book that is sometimes heartbreaking, often lighthearted, and always honest,” noting that “Maillard manages to examine the roughest edges of his family history with harsh truth without begging for the reader’s sympathy.” 2020s Author and scholar Daniel Heath Justice praises Maillard’s second book of non-fiction, The Bridge: Writing Across the Binary (2021). “Through constellated fragments of memory, key moments in twentieth-century America, and the unfolding of an acclaimed literary life,” Justice writes, “The Bridge is the forthright, deeply moving memoir of a nonbinary writer coming of age and coming to self.” Calling Keith Maillard “one of the finest English-language novelists in Canada today,” The Vancouver Sun writes that “Maillard understands his life through the lens of a lifelong struggle to know and accept his own identity off the simple-minded male/female binary.” Maillard's papers are currently held by the University of British Columbia's Rare Books and Special Collections. A complete list of Maillard's publications can be found on his website. Awards and recognition 1986: winner Praxis Competition, Two Strand River 1990: winner Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Motet 1994: runner-up Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, Light in the Company of Women 1995: winner Gerald Lampert Award, Dementia Americana 1996: shortlisted Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Hazard Zones 1999: fiction finalist, Governor General's Awards, Gloria 2004: winner West Virginia Literary Merit Award 2005: winner Polish American Historical Association Creative Arts Prize, The Clarinet Polka 2005: shortlisted Weatherford Award, Running 2006: longlisted ReLit Awards, Looking Good 2006: shortlisted Weatherford Award, Morgantown 2006: shortlisted Weatherford Award, Lyndon Johnston and the Majorettes 2006: winner Dorothy Somerset Award for Excellence in the Creative Arts 2018: The Globe 100, Twin Studies 2019: winner Alberta Book of the Year Award: Trade Fiction, Twin Studies 2019: shortlisted ReLit Awards, Twin Studies Bibliography 1976: Two Strand River (Press Porcepic) 1982 reissue: Two Strand River (General Publishing) 1996 reissue: Two Strand River (HarperCollins) 2013 reissue: Two Strand River (Keith Maillard) ebook 1980: Alex Driving South (Dial Press) 1983 reissue: Alex Driving South (General Publishing) 2013 reissue: Alex Driving South (Keith Maillard) ebook 1981: The Knife